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If you want to find out the information in the vCenter database, the VMware support bundle comes handy. For example, if you want to analyze the event history, task history, you can dig out these information from the support bundle. By default, the vCenter support bundle is collected as part of the VMware support bundle on standalone client, but not on the vSphere Web Client. So make sure to mark the check box if you want the vCenter info. Read more...

vSphere Client and vSphere Web Client allow administrators to download system logs from different ESXi hosts with choices of predefined groups of information like System, Storage, Network, UserWorld, etc. Under each group, there could be multiple types. For example, under the UserWorld, there are HostAgent and ProcessInformation. Read more...

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